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What percent of parents stop visiting their children at least annually after a breakup?

  • 47% of fathers

  • 30% of mothers

 

Cost to raise a child

The composite costs of raising a child have been estimated at between $200,000 and $250,000.

Note: These costs related to all children, on average, regardless of marital status, relationship, or involvement of the child's parents.

 

Child support awards from non-custodial parents

  • Less than half of single mothers are awarded child support from the fathers

  • Approximately 25% of fathers are awarded child support from the mothers

Note: Approximately half of all mothers receive full payment of child support ordered.

 
Received "some" of the money due to them from child support
  • 76% of mothers
  • 63% of fathers
 

Footnote 1: Out of Touch, ©1997, Geoffrey L. Greif, page 6 — source: U.S. Bureau of the Census data gathered from Lydia Scoon-Rogers, July 17, 1996.

Footnote 2: Children First: What Our Society Must Do – And Is Not Doing – For Our Children Today, ©1994, Penelope Leach, Ph.D., page 11 — source: H. Joshi, "The Cost of Caring," in C. Glendenning and J. Miller (eds.), Women and Poverty in Britain in the 1990's (London: Wheatsheaf, 1992), and in Hewlett, Child Neglect in Rich Nations, 52; N. Oldfield and A.C.S. Yu, The Cost of a Child (London: CPAG Ltd., 1993), Andrea Rock, "Can You Afford Your Kids?" Money (July 1990), pages 88-99.

Footnote 3: Out of Touch, ©1997, Geoffrey L. Greif, page 5 — source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1995b.

 

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